Re: Tim Throws a "Leaner" / Re: Tim Speaks the Truth (fwd)

[Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>]

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> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 22:02:24 -0700
> From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
> Subject: Re: Tim Throws a "Leaner" / Re: Tim Speaks the Truth

> As for Joichi's message quoted above, he should hope to hell that he wakes
> up and realizes that not even in Japan can journalists--which is what I
> thought he once was, or claimed to be--serve on Ministry committees to
> decide how citizen-units may communicate!
> 
> Any journalist in Europe or in the U.S. would be seen as having irreparably
> compromised his journalistic objectivity by serving on such a panel! And
> properly so, of course.

As long as they were representing their personal opinions and not acting as
a journalist (ie being paid by a 3rd party) and they disclose the action
there would be compromise on objectivity.

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